What in the name of Eros are women up to?
Those who responded to a recent Women's Day magazine poll have finally answered Freud's question: "What do women want?'' Somebody else, apparently.
The 3,000 women polled were asked: "If you had to do it all over, would you marry your husband again?'' Forty-six percent said yes, 36 percent said no, and 20 percent said that they weren't sure. What that says to me is that a lot of us married men are skating on pretty thin ice. And by "us,'' of course, I mean you.
My wife Sue is fine and dandy with her choice. She's convinced she got the pick of the litter, the cream of the crop when she got me. Which is not to say that she's some starry-eyed romantic, like the women who read Woman's Day - 80 percent of whom believe in the idea of "soul mates'' and 52 percent of whom believe they have found theirs.
Soulmates is a doozy of a concept, one that seems to operate on the principle that a lifelong relationship is made with magical fairy dust instead of sweat and tears and heavy lifting.
Besides which, doesn't the math seem a little off here? If 56 percent of women would dump their husbands, doesn't that mean that 4 percent of women would leave the soulmate they've found.
Another bummer in the survey is that I didn't make the list of the sexiest married men in America, which leads me to believe that the poll is fixed. Sue, by the way, has a crush on one of the goofiest-looking actors around: Brendan Frasier.
There is also a question about flirting, but I think we'll save that for another time
For more on the poll, go to http://www.womansday.com/home/11092/behind-closed-doors-a-womans-day-and-aol-survey.html
The 3,000 women polled were asked: "If you had to do it all over, would you marry your husband again?'' Forty-six percent said yes, 36 percent said no, and 20 percent said that they weren't sure. What that says to me is that a lot of us married men are skating on pretty thin ice. And by "us,'' of course, I mean you.
My wife Sue is fine and dandy with her choice. She's convinced she got the pick of the litter, the cream of the crop when she got me. Which is not to say that she's some starry-eyed romantic, like the women who read Woman's Day - 80 percent of whom believe in the idea of "soul mates'' and 52 percent of whom believe they have found theirs.
Soulmates is a doozy of a concept, one that seems to operate on the principle that a lifelong relationship is made with magical fairy dust instead of sweat and tears and heavy lifting.
Besides which, doesn't the math seem a little off here? If 56 percent of women would dump their husbands, doesn't that mean that 4 percent of women would leave the soulmate they've found.
Another bummer in the survey is that I didn't make the list of the sexiest married men in America, which leads me to believe that the poll is fixed. Sue, by the way, has a crush on one of the goofiest-looking actors around: Brendan Frasier.
There is also a question about flirting, but I think we'll save that for another time
For more on the poll, go to http://www.womansday.com/home/11092/behind-closed-doors-a-womans-day-and-aol-survey.html
posted by Michael Riley at 10:59 AM
3 Comments:
46% -yes, 36%-no and 20%-not sure - that equals 102%..was there a typo or a "statistically-challenged" pollster? I still believe that 50% of the time, all polls are wrong (or correct)...
OK, my typo: only 44 percent of women polled would marry their husbands if they had to do it all over again. It doesn't bode well for us, guys
I wonder what percent of husbands would marry those same women again? (especially after finding out their wives didn't want them after all)...
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